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history who have sought to elevate themselves by conquering others, including not only Napoleon, but also Hitler, Genghis Khan, Iv...
General Ulysses S. Grant had far more humble roots than Lee, and as such had a far less traditional and/or formal ideology regardi...
establish the status quo in the "New World". We adopted their language and their culture. Others arrived also; the Dutch, the Fr...
nation-states of Europe (plus he points out that the U.S. is actually comparable in area to Europe) (Turner, 2002). Because of the...
his background and upbringing. However, at no point are the framers of this exhibit content with merely presenting a recitation of...
The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by a journalist who wrote a speech for financier Bernard Baruch in 1947 (Saf...
defeats later, which included the devastating defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. The Confederate Congress finally relented in M...
medical societies of the power to license doctors. Family patriarchs also saw their legal rights diminished. In reaction to this...
life, liberty or property without due process of law, (or) deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the ...
actual goings-on, but also to the major players of the war including confederacy president Jefferson Davis and others such as John...
Benjamin F. Butler of the Union army is generally credited with having been the first company to employ the use of the new technol...
This book reviews pertains to Tony Horwitz's text "Midnight Rising, John Brown and the raid that sparked the Civil War," which des...
of things that are rarely mentioned in classroom history books. Most history books portray the Union troops as kind, benevolent so...
record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...
two armies would have simply pivoted around each other and ended up in each others rear, able to march unopposed to Washington or ...
a long growing season in very fertile soils. The northern winters were long and did not provide for an adequate growing season to...
was able to peacefully initiate change on a massive scale. As a leader, he was able to organize, and thus had the ability to unit...
were clearly relevant. During the American Civil War, some of the techniques were used. However, cavalry would not perform trad...
Alfonso Heep is an educated Kentucky farmboy who, in agreement with his state government, originally wanted nothing to do with the...
the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War combined."5 It is often inconceivable for the person of t...
states and what free states could join the Union in order to maintain a balance wherein slave states never had the upper hand it s...
Nor was it uncommon for these "belles" to become involved in politics, which would have been unheard of before the war (Clinton et...
had died, wrote letters to the families of other loved ones who died, and essentially came together in a very subtle way that defi...
repugnant. In exploring the time period before the Civil War, Equaino (1998) takes one on a journey through the 1700s slave trad...
deal to do with the fall of the South as well. The belief was that British debt holders that supported the South ended up taking t...
to the end of World War I. This was a war which affected the entire world. It was a war which centered on nationalistic ideolog...
USS Monitor is heralded as "the most famous of all American warships" largely because of its rotating turret, but in early March o...
civilized nation. While historians blame Grants lackadaisical resolve to enforce Reconstruction laws, that slavery was ever sough...
1861, it was with a determination to covert the "rebel States into a wilderness" (McPherson 249). While the North was eag...
the North of "Confederate" pirates, it also provided more control for the blockade (McPherson, 370). Ship Island in New Orleans fo...